Frequently Asked Questions

Can we host our own site?

If you are comfortable with managing your own server environment, this is a viable option!

Hosting your site on your own or a third party server is supported. Outlined below are requirements.

Requirements

Create a media folder. This will be the folder where all images, audio and binary files will be stored. This folder should be named "mediafiles" or "_media". A folder named "media" may sometimes conflict with a top level navigation item with the same name.

Create a cache folder. Name the folder as follows: monkcache - make sure that ‘monkcache’ is in the Document Root of your web site and that it is world writable, i.e. chmod a+rw monkcache (via the FTP or SSH command interface). The system will also attempt to create this folder when the Monk system files are loaded.

Create an image cache folder. Name the folder as follows: monkimage - make sure that ‘monkimage’ is in the Document Root of your web site and that it is world writable, i.e. chmod a+rw monkcache (via the FTP or SSH command interface). The system will also attempt to create this folder when the Monk system files are loaded.

Make sure that your Web Host supports PHP5 and make sure that safe mode is not enabled. Any stable release of PHP5 will be supported.

Make sure that your Web Host supports Mod Rewriting. For Apache this is quite simple as it is almost always included via the mod_rewrite module. For IIS special installs need to be made.

It is recommended but not required that the cURL module is enabled. The CMS will automatically detect if it is enabled.